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Donate please.

how would this game thats the same concept as hon be fun once your bored of hon?

either way, LoL is garbage and is as gay as maplestory

Its not exactly the same play, I like to switch between HoN and LoL sometimes. I find LoL's simplistic gameplay more fun, and the heroes are all unique, there isn't 80% carbon copies of DotA heroes. Thats what I like the most, even though the graphics suck, and there are little kids, its still fun to just beast on them all day, and play heroes you would never dream of seeing in HoN in a million years.

There are no creep denies, and the brush system adds a different type of gameplay that you don't see in HoN - zoning. What is also interesting about the creeps is that they do really small amounts of damage compared to creeps in HoN, this allows you to be much more aggressive and control the lane in your favor (if your hero matchups suit this).

Towers do a shitton of damage, cause I've been in HoN countless times hiding in my tower hoping to repel someone but they just dive and shit on my face with the tower doing minimal damage. Here you are extremely punished early game (two towers hits, a little player damage, you're dead) for tower diving, and even later on in the game the towers still do considerable damage, unless you are playing a hero with high HP (tank) or you build your items to be tank.

The summoner skills really make this game unique, and also somewhat gay. Having no teleport stones from HoN makes sure that your teamwork is key and you control the map and the lanes properly (you can't just buy a stone and keep one on you and use it whenever you feel like defending/ganking). There is a teleport summoner skill, but it is on a relatively high cooldown, so if you take it you must use it wisely (about 3 min cd).

If you start out early on (low account level) and you consistently win matches, the matchmaking system will start to pit you against higher level players (usually level 30s - maxed). Once you get to level 20 and unlock tier 3 runes (the highest) you can start to hold your own against level 30's though. I'm level 21 and I've only played about ~130 games of League. So in a sense, it is a grind to actually get to the end game play where you can utilize all of the resources the summoner system has to offer (summoner runes, summoner skills, summoner masteries) but it seems rewarding at the same time, and not as bad as you think it is (most of the best summoner skills/masteries you will get early on, and if you utilize them properly, will enhance your gameplay a ton over those little kids).

All of this being said, I still play HoN the majority of the time, and find the gameplay there much more intense and competitive overall. League is just a big penisfest of who can beast the hardest (not uncommon to see carries/OP heroes with over 20 kills, pushing 30 kills, in one game).

This post was edited by AntiScrub on Jun 7 2010 05:30pm

Not a good idea posting a competitive rival game....

People play HoN for the graphics, the gameplay... and to an extent, the fact that the heroes are an almost carbon copy of DoTA heroes.

I gave this game a try, it's not horrible but its definitely not hon or dota. There are a lot of 9 year olds that play it which make the lower bracket pretty unbearable, you basically get points for playing games, more if you win less if you lose, and you need to save the points to unlock heros. You get about 100 points a game and heros cost anywhere from around 400 to 6000 points to unlock. There are a shitload of heros. So basically if you wanted to have a large selection of heros and be able to play in higher level games you basically need to play this game nonstop for a month to do that, and you'd probably get bored of it before then. If you already have hon this game probably isnt worth playing, the graphics are pretty shitty and the difficulty of the game is very low, its insanely easy to get farmed in this game since creep kills are easy as balls to get, jungle heros hit for like 2 damage and have no health, and items are cheap. The strongest items you can buy are around 3000 gold, you could farm that very quickly. There are no rune sin river, no secret shop, and theres a sort of kongor monster on the map that I'm yet to kill that I have no clue what he does.

Theres a tank item I've bought the past few games that gives 800ish health, an assload of regen, and when you die it ressurects you with 40% health and mana automatically and has a 5 minute cooldown. Hon needs this retarded item. it can be farmed fro auto attacking creeps in 5 minutes.

This post was edited by Tattoooo on Jun 8 2010 02:56pm

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No there isn't any item that does what you just said.

Guardian Angel gives you armor/magic resists. (68 armor 40 magic resist) It also revives you once to 50% of your health/mana. (And once again after 5 minutes)

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God so many false statements it was almost impossible to read.

Let's start at the beginning.

Sure when you start the game and your Elo is low, you will have a lot of younger players you play with. Once your Elo goes up (by winning) you will quickly go above their bracket, and never see them again.

The average game gives over 100 for a win, up to nearly 300 for your first win of the day.

Yes there is a large selection of heroes, and the reason you can't play any you want is so you don't get overwhelmed pick a hero, suck on it, and your team do the same. 10 heroes makes it easier to choose (10 per week) thus making you have a smaller pool to learn from.

You can unlock several champions for 450 points. And even more for 1350. They are some of the easiest characters in the game to play, and they are also very good at what they do. Not bad champions by any means.

Is winning 10 games really that hard? Because 10 games = 1 1350 hero. And 5 games = 1 450 hero. Or 20 / 10 losses.

The game can seem pretty easy if you're in low Elo, you have to remember you're just starting out...is any game hard when you're just starting out? No. Once you raise you Elo up you'll find your opponents get better and better, no more of this 20+ kills a game (unless you're doing a premade, it's very easy then, your allies can help feed you).

The best items in the game cost nearly 5k gold, which is roughly 217 minion kills or 16 champion kills (with them giving max gold worth, someone with high deaths and low kills gives less gold per kill, someone with a lot of kills will give 300 +an extra amount if they're on a killing spree upwards to +1000 extra gold. Regardless, 200+ minion kills is end game numbers. It's not easy, and you can't do it in 5 minutes.

The "kongor" monster's name is Baron, he is very hard to kill, but when you do he gives your entire team a buff that gives attack damage and ability power. (Attack damage and ability power are what increase your spell/attack damages, much like INT STR DEX do on DoTA etc)

I hope I cleared a lot of this up for you.

HoN and LoL are very good games. They're great continuations to the legacy that is known as Defense of the Ancients. I personally prefer LoL because once you know people to premade with or you participate in in-house leagues, the game is very exciting, and very competitive. Thinking of what champion to play becomes more than who you like, it becomes who would be a good addition.

I just wish for the games and mostly the players to get along. Stop judging by graphics, either play the game until you're at a decent standing (lvl 30 summoner) or don't speak. If you don't want to try the game, good for you. But don't say things about the game when you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. (And this goes for the people who play LoL and are level 15-20 and think they know what they're talking about. It's like someone with a rating of 1150 on HoN trying to tell LoL players what HoN is about.)

This post was edited by CaptainT on Jun 8 2010 11:13pm